Clinician Willingness to Prescribe Medications for Opioid Use Disorder to Adolescents in Indiana.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Prescribing medications for opioid use disorders (MOUD), including buprenorphine, naltrexone, and methadone, to adolescents remains an underused evidence-based strategy for reducing harms associated with opioid use.

Objective

To identify potential associations between clinician- and community-level characteristics regarding clinicians' self-reported willingness to prescribe MOUD to adolescents.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study included a phone survey of Indiana clinicians and spatial analysis of community-level characteristics. Clinicians were eligible for inclusion in analyses if actively providing health care and listed on the Buprenorphine Practitioner Locator website, a publicly available national registry of clinicians posse

SUBMITTER: Aalsma MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11425143 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature